Welcome to the Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. This Sunday, after last week’s Crystal Ball prophecies, we target: Frenzy

  • With all the personal and political chum in this summer’s civic waters, does the hot blood of contending positions and performance plus punditry foment frenzy?
  • Not yet Labor Day, is the unnerving spectacle of Biden Agonistes fighting to reclaim progressive, presidential paradise enforce the blood in water principle: Beware the sharks you swim with?
  • Does agonistic Trump attract the frenzy of oppositional carnivores who chum with the bloody frenzy of accusation and perilous predictions of Nazi evil incarnate and the end of democracy and all things holy? Dangerous election tactics of desperation incarnate?
  • Beware the sharks you swim with?
  • As to ending a sentence with a preposition and, in further grammatical frenzy, splitting infinitives, does a Churchillian aside add more than a smile: ” I may be known to occasionally split an infinitive but as to ending a sentence with a preposition, that is something up with which I will not put?”
  • Is the real question, what are you willing to put up with?
  • What roils personal waters, creates a frenzy of feast or fear?
  • Are we, deep in political waters, fortunate to evaluate two wildly contrasting domestic and world views plus demonstrated lead shark activity along with their promises for the future?
  • Can the media pilot fish, in the main, be counted on to provide objective direction or just join a brain rotted, blood frenzy? Been out to sea with them before?
  • Since we largely exist in a bloody water world, would you rather be a great white, tiger or bull shark or be an inoffensive angel, nurse or many spotted kind?
  • Are the “Jaws” analogue sharks so stark, so scary that the intersectional adrift bunch, knowing frenzy, fears and hates results?
  • So, should we welcome expected, waspish, blood in the water whining and get on with advancing American citizen opportunity and freedom?

Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The answers and actions are yours.